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The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
CONVENIENT CRATES.
Directions for Making One BusheI Boxes
 for Corn and Potatoes.

for Corn and Potatoes.
 For economy of labor in the heavy work of harvesting and gathering corn ears and potatoes one-bushel crates are very useful Cut 2-inch boards 12 inches wide and 12 feet long into 10 pieces 14 inches long, F inches wide; | finch battens are cut into strips 17s inches long; these are nailed to the endboards with Sd. nails at sides and bottom so as to form a crate; spaces of II inches are left between the strips; ! two II inch holes are bored in each end, about inches apart, and the wood between these is cut away to make holes for lifting by. nail a short strip over the hole and bevel the under edge to make good hold. A strip is nailed across each end of the top of the box so that when the filled boxes rest upon each other there is an air space between them. The boxes are 15B inches long, IA wide and 12 deep, inside measure (quite a convenient size), and hold 3, ,751 cubic inches, and as 3, 750 cubic inches make a heaped bushel, these are bushel measures. Two of them will fit lengthwise across a 36-inch wagon box, 24 boxes will fit into a 14-foot box, and two tiers may be loaded by using top sideboard; AS bushels will make a load. Each box has nearly 54 feet of lumber; 100 boxes require 20 boards, or 240 feet, and 200 battens or 300 feet, costing from $4 to S19, and thus the cost of each box is from to 12 cents.
 The stuff may be cut out by one man and the crates put together by another man in one day. l put up 100 in less than 10 hours, and cut out the stuff in hours the day before. The potatoes are picked (sorted at the same time) into the boxes, loaded and carried into the root-house or cellar; a row of them, full, is set up or 5 feet from the side of the cellar and an- other the same distance apart, and thus one may make the bins for the bulk of the crop, the spaces in the boxes forming ventilators for the circulation of air. In market ing the tubers the boxes serve the same useful purpose, saving much handling and avoiding injury by the common use of shovel for this work. In harvesting corn the ears are husked into the boxes and loaded and emptied into the crib. It is easy to know pre- cisely the yield of the crops by the use of these boxes, and how much is put away into the roothouse or the corn crib. When corn is cut up in shocks of 7x7, or 49 hills each, and each shock yields bushel box of ears, the crop is fifty bushels per acre. If two shocks give three boxes, the yield IS 75 bush- els, as 49 is very nearly hundredth oi 4,840, the number of hills at 3x3 feet to an acre, and heaped bushel of ears is about equal to half bushel of corn.- Cor. " '. Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
How Habits Are For med.

He was pretty little fellow, but it was his manners, not his looks, that attracted every body-clerks in the stores, people in the horse-cars, men. women and children. A boy four years old, who, if any body said to him, 'How do you do?" answered, q am we'll, thanks" and if he had a re- quest to make, be it of friend or stran- ger, began it with ''Please." And thu beauty of it was that the Thanks" and Please" were so much a matter of course to the child that he never knew he was doing any thing at all noticeable.
 How cunning it is" said showy woman to his mother, as they sat at dinner, at the public table of hotel one day, ito hear that child thank the walters. and say please' when hs wants any thlng. Inever saw any thing so sweet. My children have to be con- stantly told if I want them to thank people. How we'll you must have taught him that he never forgets."
 "He has always been accustomed to it" said the mother. "We have always said please to him when we wished him to do any thing, and have thanked him. He knows no other way"
 The showy woman looked as if sl'e did not need any further explanaticI of the way in which habits we.s formed.
 Probably you do not WTde-A ADOdks.
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takes might T'-hesitatingly-''might call, say tomorrow evening. to have you rectify them? I know that you would much prefer correcting them in your own way. and Iwould be extreme ly happy to afford you that privilege. Besides, am neighbor, and some times very lonely" he added, with 8 melancholy glance from the brown eyes.
 How could Blanche refuse this hand some young editor who had all the wiles of his profession? Besides, was it not very kind of him to take such an inter- est in her poor little story?
 With a blush and a smile she told him he might come, and then, with a pleasant goodbye, left Mir. Douglass to dream of pair of gray eyes glistening through bright tears, and a sweet, sensitive mouth saying, ''How could your' in reproachful accents.
 Did he find any mistakes? Trust to Raymond Douglass for that! The next evening found him fairly introduced at No. 373. The acquaintanceship begun under such novel circumstances pro- gressed rapidly in the forty-fve minutes Mr. Douglass spent under the hospitable roof of his next door neigh bor, and a kind invitation to ''call again" sent him on his way, rejoicing that fate had cast his lot in such a pleasant place. And Blanche? An, she was but a girl-and what girl has not had bright dreams?
 Time passed on, bringing in the New Year, bringing the first faint breezes of spring and the perfume of the ear Hest violets, bringing Raymond Doug lass often to the house of the gray eyed damsel, and bringing true, pure love to the hearts of these two.
 And so, when tho old earth looked it's fairest in its emerald robe and flower garlands, these two were wed.
 Blanche has escaped the distress caused by rejected manuscripts, by not writing any more. A sure way out of the difficulty. Miriam r Crocber, in ChicdQo Current.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
OCULAR ADVICE.
How the Human Eyes May Be Kept in
 Serviceable Condition.

How the Human Eyes May Be Kept in
 Serviceable Condition.
 Never get up in the morning until you have first opened your eyes, if it takes you until noon.
 Many young man has young woman in his eye, who will effectually impair his sight the remainder of his life.
 Never throw your eyes suddenly to the hard pavement; you are likely to cripple them.
 Do not try to look too far into the the depths of the eyes of the young lady; it is certain to make you near sighted.
 When people tell you they see mis- chief in your eyes, you should go to an oculist and have it removed.
 In keeping one eye on your neigh bor, you should frequently change the eye.
 Iknow young man who permenent- Iy injured his eyes by trying to see the bald spot coming on top of hIs head.
 Some men have glass for an eye. That is bad, but it is worse to have an eye for the glass.
 Itis said to be a good thing to ''keep an eye out" but it is better to keep two eyes in.
 Never strain your eyes in trying to see the good you have done in the world.
 Other great oculists, besides myself. have asserted that the best thing for eyes is never to call another man 8 iar.-A. ". BslLat0. in Itd-Btts.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
NUMBER 29.

she walked quite often and laughed and talked, or cried Dick couldn't have reused him this time if he had been there to try. The room was swept and the picture dusted now and then all winter, and the peo- pie of the house talked and laughed and were busy about their work, and company came and went and the wind sometimes howled as it chased the snow past the windows, but Tom knew nothing about it. After while the snow came less and less often and the sun stayed longer each day, and pretty soon Tom somehow felt the sunshine all through him, and he reused himself and came out of his snug nest, He looked at himself all over very carefully and stretched out his legs one after another to be sure that they were all there, and seemed quite pleased to find that he was a whole fly. He brushed his head with his fore legs seven or eight times and polished off his wings with his hind legs about twelve times and shook him. self up in a general way good deal. and then was ready to look around him. He blundered about the room good deal at first for he couldn't re- member that he had ever seen the place before, and his wings felt little queer besides; but finally he found himself on the rail of the baby's crib. Now, Tom was an old fly, as you know, be- cause he lived through one whole win ter, and he had had great deal of ex- perience. But his experience did not do him much good, because he forgot it so soon; and when he saw the baby he nearly tumbled over backward in astonishment Such big eyes and such teeth and such pug nose and such fat cheeks! But even if Tom had not for gotten all his experience he might have been astonished just the same; for everybody was astonished who saw the baby; she was so remarkably "bright' and sweet and cunning" and active" and interesting" and absorbing" and "enticing" and "dis- tracting'' and great deal more. And when her father and mother first looked at her in the morning they were all astonished too, she seemed so very much nicer that she did the night before.
 She was lying on her back. jabbing the air with her fat little fists and making long string of good-natured cooing noises, but her teeth looked as if they might bite fly in two without any trouble, and Tom got away as fast as he could and went over to the win dow. Outside the trees were bare, but the sun shone bright and warm. and there was no snow on the ground.
 The sunshine made Tom feel so good that he fell to rubbing his head with great vigor, and polished his wings again and again, and he never in the least suspected that he was an old fly which had lived over from the fall be- fore. But he did not once think of Dick. If he had been boy or girl he would have remembered, but being d fy-well, he was just fly and that was all.
 Tom stunned himself in the windows. and flew about the house and fed him. self we'll, and was merry for long time; but some time in May he disap- peared. and nobody ever knew what became of him.-KenneH BarEo,0, t5 N. r. Tribune.
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AN oLD-FAsHIoNED CHURCH.

Twas an old-fashioned church in a new-fssh- toned town, Shrinking back from the turbulent street, And the sun through the unlimited windows shone down Like blessing beseeching to meet. If the old-fash.oned worshippers knelt in the pews To hear the good minister pray, Was that cause for unkneeling stranger to lose The prayer, and to let his eyes strayi It was not! Then suppose that his straying eyes met, Just over the top of pew, And beneath a hat laughing with feathers and jet Two eyes of heavenly blue Was that very susceptible stranger to blame line heard not the minister's prayer, If he thought of the creature and guessed at her name. And forgot the Creator up there3 You insist that twas wrongl Well, perhaps you are right, But this much let a shining man say: Every maiden's blue eyes should be kept out of sight When she kneels in the old-fashioned way.
 -0 c. Hooper.
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Etiquette m Paris.

Fashion has decreed that gentlemen must not wear dogskin gloves when making calls, these useful articles be- ing only suitable for riding or driviEs; wear. Kid gloves, with wide stitchir 7 at their back, are imperative in their stead. Neither must a gentleman car " a cane when visiting his lady friends. His stick, no matter how slen- der its proportions or ornamental its head, must be deposited with his over coat on the hat-rack. 'I am sorry to notice that you have fallen lame," re- marked the Duchess de M. to a gentle man caller who entered her presence carrying a cane. But have not be- come lame, Duchess" responded the visitor. 'I thought you had, since you can not get along without stick, " observed the lady.-Figaro.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
Taking the Census.

"I have a scheme to make some money when the next census is taken in Dakota" said one Sioux Falls man to another.
 What is itP''
 ''Why, rll make proposition to the Legislature to take the census of the towns at about five dollars per town and make whole barrel of money"
 Why, you couldn't make a cent at that rate.
 Couldn't hey? Well, I know I could get rich at it. I can take the census of a town for fifty cents You see I'll give a man half dollar to hitch up a sick horse and drive it out on the main street and let it lie down and then aft CT about five minutes I'll get up on the wagon and count lem. "-DGEota Bell.
 Do not walk with your eyes on the ground; the gravel is apt to wear the sight of
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
AN EXCELLENT REASON.

Whatever the boy might be about, At work or idle, in doors or out, Summer and autumn, winter and spring, Whenever he had chance to sing, He'd raise the tune that he loved the best, And as if it were 'by special request" Would keep it up in the air so long That all were sick of the old, old song. It wasn't much of tune, 'tis true, And where he'd heard it nobody knew, And you'd never have thought for single
 minute
 It came from nightingale or linnet; But Bob sang on as well as he could, And it seemed to do the poor fellow good And a pleased expression the singer wore When the crows in the cornfield cried
 "Encorer'
 One day, as Bob was strolling along, Cheerfully singing his fav'rite song, He met maid with eyes of blue. Who paused, with pretty How dye doY' Then said, with sweet and roguish smile "What makes you sing one tune all the
 while?"
 Said Bob, in voice that was strangely low i; "Be-cause it's the only one know Josephine Pollard, tp Harpsr'S Young people.
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New Jersey Wife-"John, I'd like some wood split right away" New Jersey Husband-'Can't do it for ten minutes. I haven't driven the mos quitoes down to water yet"
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-18
THE POOR EDITOR.
Trials and Tribulations of a Widely-Read
 Furopean Newspaper.

European Newspaper.
 We take the following complaint from a widely-read continental con- temporary, which gives the public a few specimens from its daily budget of letters. For the convenience of our readers the letters dealing with the same subject are placed in parallel columns:
 O. You would oblgel Q) When are you go- your readers by pub ing to stop this eternal fishing few more de- subject about the Hof- tails about the laying garten? out of the Hofgarten.
 (2O Your paper is so C2) My wife uses old soft it is impossible to newspapers for clean wrap any thing up in it. ing windows. Could you If you can not, etc. not arrange to have it
 rather softer? (3) I am not inter (3) Why don't you ested in your politics. leave this local gossip If you can not give alone, which nobody more room to local mat cares to know, and in ters and keep your poli- crease the number Of tics in decent bounds, Iyour foreign corres- shall be obliged, etc. pondents? IT these
 changes are not made,
 etc.
 4) You do not suffl- (D Why are you all ciently discuss the de- ways discussing and tails of political events crticising naked facts? People like myself, Every educated man who do not understand forms his own judg- much about politics, ment on such mat want to form their ters.
 opinion from newspa-
 per If you can not, etc.
 (5) Hike your paper, (5.) Why have you no but if you can not, be- weather forecasts? fore long, arrange to know they are not very give agricultural news, rel able, but am inter- I shall be obliged, etc. ested in them, and if
 you can not, etc. (6) Knowing your (6.) In the name of courtesy with regard to the large number Of the wishes of your read State officials among CTS, am convinced that your subscribers, we I shall not ask in vain would most earnestly that you will kindlylurge you to devote as publish the details much space to the pub about the Saxon, Bruns- lication of matters con wick, Hamburg Middle Icerning them as you do Park, King Albert andIto subjects interesting Cologne Cathedral lot to lawyers and military teries, as well as the men. Or do you think prices of stocks Althat watchman is less good deal of ballastlentitled to have his pro- might be left out of motion publicly an- your paper to make nounced than General room for these things. or an officially Trusting that you will,
 etc
 --PGH Mall GGzette
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Pal Mall Gazette
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(3.) I am not inter. ested in your politics. If you can not glve more room to local mat. ters and keep your poli' tics in decent bounds, shall be obliged, etc.
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out of the Hofgarten.
 (2.) Your paper is SC soft it is impossible tc wrap any thing up in it. If you can not, etc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-02
AN AL FREsCO WEDDING.
From The Baltimore sun.

Miss Mary Hurst Purnell, eldest daughter Of Little.
,on n Purncil and DR.. Elgtn Ralston Lowell Gould,
o vasbinetOn D. c., stststican In the United STATES
Bureau Of Labor and lecturer at Johns Mopkins Unit
,and baltimore couiy, tho residence Of the blide's
father - ,oa. hv thu pev Ar,,rau, T ono
liz ,ha omen Ed, under oak and hicnofy tees "
aa9d nropo tons carpeted platform Of about thirty
zee. S Grove of forest trees about seyenty-fve
aoo from the house, from which there was broad
Virus Ill III carutcd In tho centre Of this platform
PLANK wan sStsr made Of choicest and lilies OF the
ssy and Swer Son eS.ssS 81 o9 a.:
In front o. soa ane to knesi on Over the altar.
pended the mighty s,,o Sefs ey ma OR cSsr. q
tne hue Drowning all In large letters were the
Dngntcse nikn rod flowers, "Heayens Blessing Upon
words IN OF smlax caused tho words to stand
ons with increased disnc,nes A9out this forest
weoGns psse another deeper edging Of graceful,
n foliage plants Of fine Pso,G er AL
ths pam Mans, and the display in the highest
aoe,sse artistic and effective
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that hss ever bseg yAeed aeAtnst thsa>Rca tekes spe$
uiascfs 10 t1is e5ty beAne carried By the msneee
0euS q ms Chicago Opera HouUs. No moro thun four
seas for escA change Of ban ara sold 70 any person
and every other possfbfs prycautton IN hng taken TO
provent the seetpef getting 10 his work II mo average
g advance sales for the first five days 10 kept up b
monday the receps for advance sales alone for the st
OF oe Baoth engagement Of two weeks played at the
chicago Opera Houso hast soason-&40.O00 This win
ling fgnrea
At the theatres this week the attendance has been
somewhat curtaled by the miserable weather At the
Chiesgo fediana In its last week has lost none OF it's
popularity. Margaret Mather has Jared very web In
Romeo and juliet at tho Columbia At Hooley's
sweatnam, Rice and Fagan's Mfnstres have drawn a.
wen as anything In town Lolita continued at Meyckers
IN =" The Little Detective" and Sol Smith Russell
amused the audiences at the Grand
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west aoA NewsYozh, IAs1 hide. BrocAlyn. ywnay
CITY," etc. Tho assstants sort the goods according
asa ta SGo seH hs sn0i nss e &c 9 Re-
BIN 10 2 radfal terminus Of tho receivers counter
csrriagea and = many bins. The driver Hands u,
sc =. a., on and the goods are passed in to him.
side hts bin he can't open the door through vhisS tho
etbSs eorp Sn 10 can get out only through the
Tho bins crsAe around the bssement. and for every
o5ner ptn Or So there = door leading 70 tho strees
ersg up the goods - dstribSs then 10 Their ycsou
destinations. - ~' "
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LIE HAD REACHED THE LINT.


Detroit pcdlsr of tinware took out some eggbeaters
trip, and the price was only hicen cents
each and thoy worked q principle he calculated
on big sales. His first experience will answer for all
OF WAYNE County and took beater In II exhibit The
people liked IL exceedingly WE'LL but the old farmer said
" Young man, want TO see your PATENT
" | have nona"
"TLen your written authority to mako sales"
"Don't need any"
ether YOU IA ust rive a bond, with two sureties. In
tho sum OF OOO that you will stand between mo and
any trouble"
" But can't do that"
"Then cant buy. I've just had to pay royalty on
drive we'll using mt ON patent
sp.e and have Q lawaut about hayfork aud another
over n windmill and NO don't even buy disnpan with
out bond that 1t don't infringe On somebody's patent
bath.ub"
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NOVEL USB FOR THE SCRIPTURES.
From The Boston Trdnscrtpe

uh,s readings psrlors will he feature Of socstv.
dVsrsion shall be said ghis winter and will take the
among somo OF the intellectual that Brow Ing
rr,tals occupied last year. Readers who may
rom this preface that society H. becoming pious will 10
nnonted when they learn that the new movement
Snds s support the sgnostcs. and that the old
Riha will b. selected solely with the rhetorical
tnrical probabilities OF m stately language IN view. II 10
nnderstood that young society man who quite dis
tineuishsd himself - amateur reader OF Browning
reading them to ears satsd with tho Flight Of the
Duchess and rabbi Ben Ezra" and is very eager for
fhe oneuug of the readiBR which usually dates
from Noven Der 15 From the Psalms he hopes to pro-
eress to Book OF job sboud society grAcicusy smile
porton Of bis hearers the Big veds 10 moro familiar
Than the holy Scriptures.
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AN ANswER TO THE COUNT or PARI&

private letter from Paris tells Of response 20 e
manifesto of the Comte de Paris Py o.
form. The work acts forth ali the resseus way the
Con- do Paris IL looked upon In the Oh an @
sscount Of the contents OF the volume ~ read ~ one
VINO lad been entrusted with tho adysncs t
many picturesque tnede4ts q hissoV sesessss's -
made conspleuously Dpb4A
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APROvIDEHr DAUGHrER.

In god old western Massachusetts town hves
doctor Who hsA buried four wives. when number four
was bride Of few days abe went with her oldest stcp
daughter into the attic to dina an seeing
4 hoard that she Thought would ansver her purpose
nicely abe was about to take IT, wnen tho daughter ex
Clamod: ~
lar out HE wives onts
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responsibility New York Republicans Of carrying The
efats and carrying tho election. nnos will ve her
majority br any Republican candidate Mr.. RlAtne
very strong IN tho West ami n tho Republicans OF
New-Yorh want him, the Wese win bo satisfied Bue
they Will bo satisfied with any ons nev-York VII
choOea.s